Here is my lovely grad student, L., arriving on her lovely hybrid mixte bike to do her thing on campus today. We both rode in, by the way, in FIERCE winds. We agreed that had we not been pedaling we’d have been blown *backward*!

And here’s a new shot of the Blue Beauty with her new Brooks saddle:

And I stopped to take this giant fellow’s picture on my ride into work this morning:

And tonight’s dinner, a local prosciutto from Niagara-on-the-Lake, with local wild leeks from the woods behind our house, in a fabulous risotto with both Parmesanno Regianno and Pecorino Romarin:

All in all, a really great day — which is good. I’ve been in need of one of those.